TAS AmericasTogether and Stronger · United States

From everywhere, at home in America.
From America, at home everywhere.

Fifty states. Two journeys. One family.

TAS stands for Together and Stronger, a membership organization for people whose lives cross borders. TAS Americas is its house for the United States: for everyone with a foreign-born story who lives here, from every continent and every country of the hemisphere, together with their families, and for Americans who now live abroad.

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On the world stage

Built to become the world’s largest affinity network for families whose lives cross borders.

Belong to an organization whose values count on the world stage. One card opens the same promise in eight regional houses, from the Americas to Europe, Africa and Asia, and every member strengthens the voice of all the others.

Become a memberSee every house

8
regional houses, one family, with TAS World as the gateway to all of them.
1
member card, recognized by every house wherever you live next.
12
areas of everyday life covered by the benefits we negotiate.
304 million
people live outside their country of birth: the community we exist to serve.

A nation built by people from somewhere else.

52 million+
people born abroad live in the United States, more than in any other country (2024).
1 in 7
people living in the United States was born in another country (2023).
40 million+
people in the United States speak Spanish at home (2023).
304 million
people worldwide live outside their country of birth (mid-2024).

Sources: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), International Migrant Stock 2024; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023. These figures describe the communities we serve, not our membership.

Two doors, one house.

TAS Americas serves two journeys that run in opposite directions: the people who have made their lives here, and the Americans who have made their lives elsewhere. Both are welcome as members, and both hold the same card.

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Building a life in the United States

Members. Free for the first 90 days.

You came to build something. You do not have to build it alone.

For professionals, students, entrepreneurs and families who came from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe or the Middle East, together with their US-born children, relatives and friends, in every one of the fifty states.

  • One membership per adult, children under 18 included, and a digital member card on your phone.
  • Benefits we negotiate for the whole community: flights home, money transfers, phone plans, health programs and insurance through licensed providers.
  • Help with the first years: a bank account, a credit history, a driver’s license, a lease, school places and recognition of your qualifications.
  • Care for the parents who visit, and for the parents who stay behind while you are far away.
  • Associations from your home country, linked to a network across the country.
  • A card recognized by every house of the family: if you move, your membership moves with you.

Become a member

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Americans living abroad

Members. Free for the first 90 days.

Far from home, never far from your own.

For US citizens and permanent residents now living in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East or Oceania: professionals on assignment, retirees, students, and families who chose a life overseas.

  • Your affairs in the United States kept in order: US tax filing from abroad, banking across borders and documents that must stay current.
  • The Consular Desk: how to enroll with the nearest US embassy, renew a passport and record a child born abroad.
  • Fares home that we negotiate for the holidays that matter: Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, graduations and family milestones.
  • Support for parents and elders who remain in the United States while you build a life elsewhere.
  • A community of fellow members in the cities where you now live.
  • A way back in: guidance for the year you decide to return home.

Guides for living abroad

Living in Canada? Join through TAS Canada. Living in Latin America or the Caribbean? TAS Latin America is open. The card is the same in every house.

Find your house: Europe Canada Africa India China East Asia West Asia TAS World

Twelve areas of benefit, chosen for families across borders.

One household has little bargaining power. Hundreds of thousands of households speaking with one voice have a great deal. TAS Member Services negotiates on behalf of every member; your membership covers twelve areas of everyday life, and eight of them are shown here.

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  • Travel home and travel anywhere

    Fares negotiated for the routes families actually fly, from Los Angeles to Lagos, from Miami to Madrid, and for the weeks when everyone travels at once.

    With your member card

  • Sending money home

    Transfers to family through regulated providers, on fairer terms, arriving on time. Tuition, rent and bills in two currencies become simple.

    With your member card

  • Phone, data and staying reachable

    Plans that keep a family in one conversation across time zones, with roaming that works and your home number kept alive.

    With your member card

  • Health, dental and vision

    Your card opens health, dental and vision programs where you live, and travel medical cover for parents who come to stay, through licensed providers.

    With your member card

  • Insurance through licensed providers

    Life, final-expense, travel, home and auto insurance arranged for members by licensed insurers. Membership itself is not insurance.

    With your member card

  • Banking, savings and credit-building

    A first bank account, a credit history built from zero and a place for savings, with referrals to qualified professionals when tax season arrives in two countries.

    With your member card

  • Jobs, skills and recognized qualifications

    Help to have a degree or professional license assessed, language for work, career introductions and a first step towards starting a business.

    With your member card

  • End of life and repatriation

    When a family must bring a loved one home, or say farewell with dignity where they lived, we guide them and arrange what is needed. No family faces it alone.

    With your member card

See all twelve areas

Your first ninety days.

Whether you have just arrived in the United States or just moved abroad, the first three months decide a great deal. This is the order in which members tell us things matter, and where the membership helps at each step.

  1. Week one

    Connected and oriented

    • A phone plan and data that work from day one
    • Your member card on your phone
    • Scam Watch, before anyone calls you
    • Your consulate registered, if you live abroad

  2. Month one

    Banked and housed

    • A Social Security number or ITIN, and a first bank account
    • A lease understood before you sign
    • Money home on fair terms
    • A state ID or driver’s license, and a doctor found

  3. Month three

    Building and belonging

    • A credit history started from zero
    • Your degree or license on its way to recognition
    • Children settled in school
    • An association, and people who stand with you
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Every year, the road leads home.

Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year, a graduation, a wedding, a parent’s birthday: for a family spread across countries, each of these is a journey to plan, to pay for and to make. The membership is built around it.

  • Booked in good time

    Holiday fares and connections negotiated while seats remain, on the routes members fly most.

  • Gifts that arrive

    Money and gifts sent ahead through regulated providers, in the hands of the people waiting for them.

  • When parents visit

    Travel medical cover for parents staying with you, arranged through licensed providers, so a long visit stays a happy one.

  • When you cannot be there

    Referrals for elder care for parents at home, so help is close even when you are not.

Two directions, one bridge.

Whichever way you move, capable people stall at the same practical gates. Each guide sets out what is required, in the order you will meet it.

Settling in the United States

For everyone building a life here

  1. A credit history from zeroWhy a good record at home does not travel, and how a new one is built.
  2. A first bank accountThe documents banks ask for, and the order in which to gather them.
  3. Taxpayer numbers and your first tax seasonWhich number you need, and when the first return is due.
  4. A driver’s licenseExchange or test, and how to find the rules that apply to you.
  5. Renting a homeReferences, deposits and lease terms, understood before you sign.
  6. School places and recognized qualificationsEnrollment for children, and assessment of a degree or license.
  7. Registering for healthcareFinding a doctor, and understanding how care is paid for.

These guides are general information. They are not legal, immigration, tax or financial advice. Rules differ from place to place and change over time; always confirm with the public authority concerned.

Fifty states. One house.

From New York to California, and wherever Americans have settled overseas, the same membership and the same card. Canada has its own house, TAS Canada, and TAS Latin America is open.

  • United States

    The Northeast

    New York, New Jersey, Boston and Philadelphia: the oldest gateways, with communities from every country on earth.

  • United States

    Washington and the Mid-Atlantic

    The capital region, Maryland and Virginia: the Consular Desk for nearly every country, and professionals building careers.

  • United States

    The Southeast

    Atlanta, the Carolinas and Tennessee: some of the fastest-growing communities in the country, and families settling for the long term.

  • United States

    Florida and Puerto Rico

    Miami, Orlando and Tampa: the bridge to Latin America and the Caribbean, with banking and family across two worlds.

  • United States

    Texas and the Southwest

    Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Phoenix: engineers, physicians and entrepreneurs, and families with ties across the border.

  • United States

    The Midwest

    Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Columbus: strong hometown associations, universities, and credentials put to work.

  • United States

    California and the West

    Los Angeles, the Bay Area, San Diego and Seattle: the Pacific gateway, technology careers and the largest communities from Asia and Mexico.

  • Americans abroad

    Europe, Latin America and the Middle East

    London, Madrid, Lisbon, Mexico City and Dubai: US taxes from abroad, embassy enrollment and fares home for the holidays.

  • Americans abroad

    Asia-Pacific and Africa

    Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and the cities of Africa: banking across borders, documents kept current and the longest journeys home.

Wherever your family is, the line holds.

From the great cities of the United States, through Miami, the bridge to Latin America and the Caribbean, to the cities where Americans now live abroad. Choose a city to see what membership means there.

Across the United States

The bridge

Americans abroad

Your membership in this city

Where the two journeys meet

For Americans living here

  • New York

    Health programs, referrals for legal and document questions, credential assessment for professionals, and money home on fair terms.

  • Los Angeles

    Fares across the Pacific and to Mexico and Central America, a first bank account and credit history, and the associations of more than a hundred home countries.

  • Houston

    Licensed insurance for families and businesses, recognition of engineering and medical qualifications, and flights to Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  • Chicago

    School places and tutoring for children, elder care across borders, and a network of hometown associations that reaches every continent.

  • Washington, D.C.

    The Consular Desk for nearly every country, document guides, and career introductions for professionals and graduates.

  • Atlanta

    A first home and a first credit history, flights from the world’s busiest airport, and families from West Africa, the Caribbean and Asia.

  • Dallas–Fort Worth

    Careers in finance, health and technology, business banking for family enterprises, and fast-growing communities from India, Nigeria and Mexico.

  • Boston

    Students and researchers from every continent, guidance in Portuguese and Haitian communities, and the step from study to work.

  • San Francisco Bay Area

    Technology professionals and their families, housing and credit explained, and parents who visit from India, China and Vietnam.

  • Seattle

    Careers in technology and global trade, health programs for families, and flights across the Pacific.

  • Phoenix

    Families with ties across the border, a first home in a fast-growing region, and money home on fair terms.

  • Minneapolis

    Strong East African, Hmong and Latino communities, school places and interpreters, and associations that stand together.

  • Miami

    The bridge to Latin America and the Caribbean: banking between two countries, onward travel south, and document guides in both directions.

  • London

    For Americans in the United Kingdom: US tax filing from abroad, banking across the Atlantic and fares home for the holidays.

  • Mexico City

    For Americans in Mexico: residency paperwork explained, healthcare and housing, and family a short flight away.

  • Madrid

    For Americans in Spain: embassy enrollment, schools for children and keeping US accounts open.

  • Lisbon

    For Americans in Portugal: documents, housing, and keeping affairs in order on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Dubai

    For American professionals in the Gulf: banking across borders, health cover for families and long-haul travel home.

  • Tokyo

    For Americans in Japan: housing and phone contracts explained, and help with documents in a second language.

  • Sydney

    For Americans in Australia: banking, US taxes from abroad and the longest journey home, planned well.

In every city of the network, hometown, alumni, professional and cultural associations can join at no cost for their first 90 days and keep their name and independence. For community leaders

Miami is the bridge of the network: the place where the two journeys meet and travelers in both directions find their guides. Read the free guides

Americans abroad are members of TAS Americas wherever they live, and every other house of the family recognizes their card. Become a member

We answer in your language.

The United States speaks many languages. This house is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French, and members who serve as interpreters help us answer in many more.

  • EnglishEvery member, in all fifty states and abroad
  • EspañolMore than 40 million people in the United States speak it at home
  • PortuguêsBrazilian communities in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey and beyond
  • FrançaisHaitian and French-speaking African communities in New York, Miami and Boston
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No community should have to pass the hat alone.

Long before there were websites, there were hometown associations, alumni clubs, chambers of commerce and congregations. They found work for the newly arrived, settled disputes and made sure no one was buried without ceremony. TAS Americas exists to make them stronger, never to replace them.

Join free for 90 days
Your association joins at no cost for its first 90 days and keeps its name, its leadership and its independence.
Benefits for your members
Every one of your members can hold the card and use the programs we negotiate.
A seat in the network
A place among the associations of the country, and a voice in what we negotiate.

For community leaders

Three ways in. One card.

Membership is free for the first 90 days — one membership per adult, with children under 18 included on a parent’s membership.

Your digital card lives on your phone, and every house of the family recognizes it.

  • Individual

    For one adult.

    • Your own digital member card
    • All twelve areas of benefit
    • Recognized by every house

  • Household

    For families

    For the adults of one household, with every child under 18 included.

    • A card for each adult in the home
    • Children under 18 on a parent’s membership
    • Registered once, together when you move
    • Family, education and elder-care programs across borders

  • Association

    For associations

    For hometown and alumni associations, student unions, cultural and faith communities, professional associations and chambers of commerce.

    • Joins at no cost for its first 90 days; keeps its name and independence
    • Benefits for every one of its members
    • A seat in the network and the Mutual Aid Compact

Become a memberTwenty-one reasons to join

Free to everyone. No card needed.

Some help should never depend on membership. These four services are open to anyone, whichever direction your journey runs.

What we believe.

  1. Together we are always stronger.

    A household negotiating alone is easy to overlook. A community negotiating together is not.

  2. We build stronger communities.

    The student, the grandmother and the business owner want different things; in one organization, each of them gets it.

  3. Distance does not break a family.

    Distance wears a family down slowly. We are here so that the thread never snaps.

  4. No one is left to strangers.

    When a member falls ill, loses work or dies far from home, the community stands with the family.

  5. Excellence is a form of respect.

    We are careful, punctual and courteous with every person we serve.

Join us, or serve with us.

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Become a member

Membership is free for the first 90 days — one membership per adult, with children under 18 included on a parent’s membership.

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Serve your community

Members who wish to give their time serve as community ambassadors, interpreters, guide writers, mentors and welcome volunteers in the cities where they live.

Serve with us

Questions, answered plainly.

What does TAS stand for?

Together and Stronger. TAS Americas is the house of the Together and Stronger family for the United States: for everyone with a foreign-born story who lives here, and for Americans living abroad.

Who can join?

Anyone with a foreign-born story who lives in the United States, together with their children, relatives and friends, and any US citizen or permanent resident living abroad. People living in Canada join through TAS Canada; TAS Latin America welcomes residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Is there a fee?

Membership is free for the first 90 days — one membership per adult, with children under 18 included on a parent’s membership. Associations also join at no cost for their first 90 days.

Will you ask about my status?

Never. We do not collect information about immigration or residence status, on the membership form or on the card, and we never sell personal information.

Is this insurance?

No. Membership is not insurance. Insurance and repatriation programs are offered through licensed providers, and the Mutual Aid Compact is a commitment between associations that creates no right to payment.

I lead an association. How do we join?

Associations join at no cost for their first 90 days and keep their name and independence. Register on the page for community leaders and your association takes its seat in the network and the Mutual Aid Compact.

What does the member card do?

The card is your membership. It lives on your phone, opens every program in the twelve areas of benefit, and every house of the family recognizes it, so it moves with you.

How is this site related to the other Together and Stronger sites?

Together and Stronger is one family. Together and Stronger is the parent organization; TAS Americas and seven other regional houses serve Europe, Canada, India, China, Africa, East Asia and West Asia; TAS Member Services negotiates the benefits; and TAS Foundation gives free first help. One card is recognized everywhere.

Do you give legal, immigration or tax advice?

No. Our guides are general information. When you need advice, we refer you to qualified professionals and to the public authority that decides the matter.

How can I serve?

Members who wish to give their time serve as community ambassadors, association liaisons, interpreters, guide writers, mentors and welcome volunteers. Serve with us.

One family of houses.

TAS Americas is a house of Together and Stronger. A card issued by any house is recognized by all of them.

Sister organizations

Eight regional houses

Become a member.

Membership is free for the first 90 days — one membership per adult, with children under 18 included on a parent’s membership.